A RAT IS NOT AN IMPROVISER,
OR IF HE IS AN IMPROVISER,
HE IS STILL A RAT.
A FERRET IS SOMETIMES AN IMPROVISER.
HE WILL RELUCTANTLY TAKE DESPERATE MEASURES, ON OCCASION,
TO GET THE RAT.
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
CONGRATULATING MEMBERS OF THE MEDIA FOR TRUTH TELLING
Congratulating members of private firms, or in government positions, ( whistle blowers ) for ratting out their institutions on putative infractions of this or that law or moral.
It's pretty bad when you have to single out individuals for doing such things.
it raises other questions.
Why is is even thought necessary, appropriate, or uplifting to have to single out only a handful of members of the media, or industry, for truthtelling.
Doesn't that cast the 99.9% of those working in those professions in a less favorable light then?
Do you award Assange, or Snowden, with a Ridenour Prize?
If yes, then why?
If not, why not?
Who says, or should say, after all, who is right, or wrong, who should be praised, who blamed, under such circumstances?
Don't tell me: Well, it is going to be the verdict of history.
The judgment of history.
Of course, there are reasons why the media fail to tell the truth generally. It is complicated. people are long accustomed to being brought up on false images and false histories of their past and that of others.
If you tried to actually tell them the truth about many very important things in US or world history, not only would they not beileve you, but the might lynch you.
The Whig interpretation of the present is overwhelmingly powerful, because based on a long heritage of falsifying the past as it happened.
So, truthtelling has its costs, and the media seldom wants to rock the current history liberal Whig history boat here, for the simple reason that there are no other nearby boats still afloat.
It's pretty bad when you have to single out individuals for doing such things.
it raises other questions.
Why is is even thought necessary, appropriate, or uplifting to have to single out only a handful of members of the media, or industry, for truthtelling.
Doesn't that cast the 99.9% of those working in those professions in a less favorable light then?
Do you award Assange, or Snowden, with a Ridenour Prize?
If yes, then why?
If not, why not?
Who says, or should say, after all, who is right, or wrong, who should be praised, who blamed, under such circumstances?
Don't tell me: Well, it is going to be the verdict of history.
The judgment of history.
Of course, there are reasons why the media fail to tell the truth generally. It is complicated. people are long accustomed to being brought up on false images and false histories of their past and that of others.
If you tried to actually tell them the truth about many very important things in US or world history, not only would they not beileve you, but the might lynch you.
The Whig interpretation of the present is overwhelmingly powerful, because based on a long heritage of falsifying the past as it happened.
So, truthtelling has its costs, and the media seldom wants to rock the current history liberal Whig history boat here, for the simple reason that there are no other nearby boats still afloat.
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